Arbeitspapier

Bread, peace and the attrition of power: Economic events and German election results

Aggregate votes for incumbent parties in post-war Germany were determined by the weighted-average growth of real per capita disposable income. Each percentage point of per capita real disposable income growth sustained over the legislative term yielded approximately two percentage points of votes in Germany. No other economic variables add value or significantly perturb the coefficients of our model. However, attrition of power reduced the vote share in election years 1961, 1994 and 1998.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Economics Department Working Paper Series ; No. 3

Classification
Wirtschaft
Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
Subject
bread and peace model
elections
vote share
real per capita disposable income growth

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Batool, Irem
Sieg, Gernot
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
(where)
Braunschweig
(when)
2009

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:gbv:084-24452
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Batool, Irem
  • Sieg, Gernot
  • Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre

Time of origin

  • 2009

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